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A 10-year-old Mexican girl living in Texas has been detained by Customs and Border Protection officers after receiving emergency gall bladder surgery.

Rosamaria Hernandez was mid-transfer to a Corpus Christi hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning when immigration agents stopped the ambulance she was travelling in, The New York Times reports.

Rosamaria, who has cerebral palsy and has been living in the town of Laredo since she was an infant, had just passed a Border Patrol checkpoint.

She was escorted to Driscoll Children’s Hospital where she received treatment. The agents remained outside her hospital room until her release the following day, after which she was escorted to a holding facility in San Antonio, 241km away from her home in Laredo.

Rosamaria has cerebral palsy and was transferring to a hospital in another city for emergency surgery when she was approached by immigration agents. (Supplied)

The facility is typically employed to accommodate unaccompanied migrant children.

US immigration does not typically arrest illegal migrants currently living in the US, especially those with serious medical conditions.

Rosamaria’s detention however comes amid a crackdown by the Trump administration that has seen immigration-related arrests rise by more than 40 percent compared to the same period last year.